HEC Students competing in the Hult Prize, the world's largest student movement for Social Good!

Five HEC students from the MSc in Sustainable Development, the MSc in Finance and the Social Business Enterprise and Poverty Certificate are competing in the Hult Prize, an international Challenge for student social entrepreneurs dedicated to solving the most pressing social challenges on the planet. Their project "Feed Your Future", seeks to improve food security for 200 million people living in urban slums around the world.

The HEC Paris team has just competed in the Global online competition. Their project, Feed Your Future, is among the TOP 10 videos!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S7lMl3BvUqU

If you speak French and you want to know everything on the Livelihoods network camp, listen to RFI (Radio France International)
on Saturday  20 October  
09h10 /09h59 GMT (11h10 / 11h59 à Paris)
23h10 /  23h59 GMT (01h10 / 01h59 à Paris)

If you speak French and you want to know everything about the Araku project and the Naandi Foundation in India, listen to RFI
on Sunday 21 October
09h10 /09h59 GMT (11h10 / 11h59 à Paris)
23h10 / 23h59 GMT (01h10 / 01h59 à Paris)
If you miss these timeslots, you will find the interviews on rfi.fr on the following Monday. 

About Livelihoods: Livelihoods is a carbon investment fund dedicated to promoting projects with strong social impact. It draws on specialized know-how from a range of sources: community organizers, technical experts and business. http://www.livelihoods.eu/

Charles-Edouard Vincent, founder of Emmaüs Défi and HEC Paris affiliate professor in the Social Business Certificate program has just become Ashoka Fellow!

More on FB: http://www.facebook.com/AshokaFrance

Who are the Ashoka Fellows?
Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs who are recognized to have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society. They demonstrate unrivaled commitment to bold new ideas and prove that compassion, creativity, and collaboration are tremendous forces for change. Ashoka Fellows work in over 70 countries around the globe in every area of human need. All Ashoka Fellows must undergo a rigorous search and selection process in which they demonstrate that they fully meet Ashoka's selection criteria.

More on Ashoka: http://www.ashoka.org/about

Click http://www.jeprofitedusystemebabyloan.org/le-defi

What is Babyloan? it is the leading European Internet site for solidarity microcredit. This project enables the “Babyloanian” Internet users from countries of the North to finance projects by micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries via small no-interest loans. It represents a source of extra financing for microfinance institutions (MFIs). Above and beyond collecting funds, Babyloan plays an active role in awareness-raising and education of the general public regarding microfinance, especially during the Rencontres de Babyloan event in Paris or the Babytour in the french regions. Babyloan is moreover extending its activity so as to benefit micro-entrepreneurs in France, in partnership with ADIE.

Destination Changemakers is a project aiming at supporting social entrepreneurship. After one year and a half of preparation in the UK, in Austria and in France (January 2011 – August 2012), they are now on the field to help 4 outstanding social entrepreneurs in the Philippines, in India and in Senegal during 9 months (September 2012 – June 2013). Their mission : help creating new alliances between social entrepreneurs and large companies.

Read their latest news on their website: Destinationchangemakers.com

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Planète d'Entrepreneurs' Newsletter: September issue

Congratulations to Aurélie Dano, co-author of a report on China's energy future, just published by the Harmattan editions: "Le défi énergétique de la Chine - Comment la Chine prépare-t-elle son avenir énergétique" (Book in French). More information on the editions Harmattan's website.

Aurélie graduated with an MSc in Sustainable Development from HEC Paris in June 2011. She also holds the HEC Paris Social Business Certificate.

Find here the Minutes of the workshops held in Paris on May the 15th.

by Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault, and the CSR team, in the presence of Martin Hirsch, president of the Institut du Service Civique; Emmanuel Faber, co-COO of Danone; Jean-Marc Borello, president of the Groupe SOS; Frédéric Dalsace, holder of the HEC Paris Social Business Chair; Florence Gilbert, director of Voiture&Co and Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, executive director of the Social Business Chair, among others.

The HEC Paris Social Business Chair is the academic partner of the program MobiliZ.

• "L'entreprise à l'ère de la défiance" by Anne Chanon et Jérome Auriac. More information on the book on the "Entrepreneurs d'avenir"'s blog (in French).

Jerôme is an HEC Paris affiliate professor in charge of the course "Social entrepreneurship in poor and developing countries" in the Social Business Certificate program.

• "Vive la CO-révolution! Pour une société collaborative" by Anne-Sophie Novel et Stéphane Riot. More information the Nove Terra's website (in French).

Stéphane Riot is in charge of the course "Raising awareness towards sustainability: individual and collective approach" in the HEC Paris MSc in Sustainable Development. He is the founder of Nove Terra.

Planète d'Entrepreneurs' Newsletter: May issue

danone.communities welcomed 2,000 people to its annual General Conference on May 15th, in the Maison de la Mutualité at the heart of Paris.

The evening was the main momentum of the GCM Tour 2012 in France, before other major events in other countries. danone.communities welcomed again Pr.Yunus and social entrepreneurs from all over the world to give their insights on two main topics, "Social business and nutrition in emerging countries" and "Is social business working?"

Many students from the Social Business Certificate were there too!!

The meeting Impact ² is organized by the Comptoir de l’Innovation, on financing social entrepreneurship in France and in the world. Its ambition is to promote impact investing, a new way of financing based on the practice of assessing not only the financial return on investment, but also the social and environmental impacts of the investment.

Planète d'Entrepreneurs' Newsletter: April issue

Convergences 2015 calls out to the French Republican Presidential candidates about solidarity for the coming five-year term (in French).

More information on the preparation of the meeting on the following pages: ESS et entrepreneuriat social et Solidarité internationale (in French).

twitter during the debate: #sol2012

Planète d'Entrepreneurs' Newsletter: March issue

6 March 2012: Conférence FACTS - Le Monde "Lutte contre la pauvreté, entre don et marché"

This conference took place in Paris. Philippe Kourilsky, professor at the Collège de France and Frédéric Dalsace, associate professor of Marketing at HEC Paris and holder of the Social Business Chair were among the guests.

More information on the dedicated website (in French)

22 February 2012: Public lecture by Muhammad Yunus in Singapore: "Creating a supportive environment for social businesses".

Co-organized with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, this public lecture by Professor Muhammad Yunus will address the challenges of creating a supportive environment for social businesses. Addressing civil society and government bodies, Professor Yunus will illustrate how social business can play a partnering role in addressing the social needs of a country, and also suggest policy frameworks that will be conductive for the growth of such businesses. 

Catherine Rousseau, from the Social Business Chair's team will be there!

The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, organized by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Boston Consulting Group, recognizes a new generation of business leaders engaged in sustainable and innovative projects with high social impact. This year, Archer Group President Christophe Chevalier was lauded for mobilizing efforts to create modest but sustainable jobs at the local level.

Since 2009, HEC Paris has been the award ceremony's academic partner via the Social Business/Enterprise and Poverty Chair. Associate Marketing professor and chair holder Frédéric Dalsace was among the jury, composed of leading figures in the economic and social business world.

Dedicated pages in French here

Workshop: "Altruisme et altruité dans les sciences sociales" en présence du professeur Kourilsky

La Chaire Social Business/Entreprise et Pauvreté d'HEC et la Chaire d'Economie Sociale et Solidaire de l'Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée, dirigée par le professeur Hervé Defalvard, proposent un atelier de travail sur les implications et les prolongements du concept d'altruité introduit par Philippe Kourilsky, professeur au Collège de France, dans son dernier ouvrage "Le Manifeste de l'Altruisme" (2011, edition Odile Jacob).

The Specialized Masters Professional Thesis Prize was awarded to Clemence Patureau for her paper on "Innovating to meet social needs". Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 2009, Clémence holds a Master's degree in politics from EHESS. She then joined the specialized master "Entrepreneurs" at HEC Paris and graduated in 2010. The same year she obtained the Social Business certificate. She has been working for the Mouvement des Entrepreneurs Sociaux (MOUVES - French network of social entrepreneurs) since then.

Read the professional thesis on line (in French): full text or abstract. Learn more about the HEC Foundation prizes or Clémence's prize

"Il faut passer du G20 au G25 avec un pays pauvre représentant chaque pays" from Muhammad Yunus, on www.latribune.fr, and "Des incitations fiscales pour le Social Business" by Martin Hirsch (articles in French)